Greetings list members, If voters were allowed to rank the political parties then the lowest remainder could be transferred to the other parties according to the percentages of the next choices of all the voters of a party. This would be something like using Irving to deal with the remainders in a Party List method election.
For example: If the next choices of Party A were: Party B 20% Party C 25% Party D 10% No Choice 45% Then after seats were divided according to Hare quota, and if Party A happens to have the lowest remainder, then Party A's remainder would be divided according to these percentages and transferred. After which the next lowest remainder, of some other party, would also be divided and transferred until the number of remaining parties equal the number of seats to be filled. If during the routine, a party happened to have more votes than a Hare quota, that party would gain one of the remaining seats and its new remainder would also be subject to being divided and transferred whenever it happened to be the lowest. Donald, ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
